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ADVERTISING DEVICE.

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GEOFFREY B. LEHY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

ADVERTISING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 21, 1908.

Application filed November 9, 1906. Serial No. 342,623.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEOFFREY B. Linn', a citizen of the United States, and resident of Boston, in the county oi' Suilolk and State oi' Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Advertising Devices, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an advertising device in which a multiplicity of ligures or dolls are made to appear and pass bei'ore a miniature shop, to pause at appropriate intervals to look into the window of said shop and linally to enter and later to reappear carrying a purchase.

In the drawings, Figrue 1 is an elevation of' the device showing the vfront windows of the miniature shop and a stock of goods dis-- layed in the said windows and showing also Four different Iigures or dolls, two of which are looking into the side and ltr/ont windows of the shop at one side of the main entrance and two other ligures are shown as facing away from the shop upon the liront and side and carrying different purchases. Fig. 2 is a diagram of the mechanism for actuating and controlling the movement of the figures partly in section, seen from above Fig. 3 is a diagrammatic view of the mechanism, seen from below; Fig. 4 is an enlarged view of portions of Fig. 3; Fig. 5 is a detail in elevation; and Fig. 6 is a plan view of Fig. 5.

My device as one of its objects, is designed to create the illusion that the di-Ilerent figures which successively enter the shop empty handed, make their purchase within and issue forth carrying the said purchase in their arms and for this purpose the several figures moving in one of the circuits upon one side are duplicated in the other circuit as to dress and appearance except that upon one side the 'figure has no package while upon the other the duplicate figure is shown carrying a package or purchase.

In the drawings 1 is a continuously moving sprocket chain carried by two sprocket. wheels, 2 and 2. This chain and its wheels are actuated by a motor 3 or in any suitable way. The chain 1 carries dogs 4t and 5 set at equal distances apart, that is one half the length ofthe chain. Upon the base board X upon which the moving parts are mounted in their proper relations are set two other sprocket chains 6 and 6', each chain mounted upon four idler sprockets 7 and 7 respectively, the sets of four sprockets being as shown in the drawings, arranged to cause the sprocket chain to pass in a rectangular path, one side ol the rectangle being parallel with the main chain 1 (see Fig. 3). Each of the chains 6 and 6 carries four ahutments 8 and S and carries also four pivoted arms 9 and 9 arranged as shown inFig. 3. These arms are each connected by a spiral spring to the abutments 8 and 8 respectively and the said spring tends normally to hold the arms in a desired position and to return them into that position whenever they are moved out of it as soon as the cause oi' disturbance is removed. 'lhe pivot of these arms 9 and. 9 passes through a slot X in the base board and above the upper surface ot' the base board the several pivots carry figures A, B, O, and l) upon one circuit or side oi the device, and A', B, O, and D upon the other circuit or side el' the device, A and A, B and B, C and O, l) and D being respectively, as indicated above, duplicates of cach other, save that A, B, C and 1) carry in their arms a purchase or package.

rlhe operation of the device is as follows: The position of the parts being as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, the movement of chain 1 will, as soon as dog` 5 engages abutment S, which it is about to do in Fig. 3, move chain 6 one quarter of a turn, moving doll A to the left, as seen in Fig. 1, and releasing arm 9 from the abutment thus permitting the spiral spring to turn the iigure facing in the line of movement of the chain, and carrying the iigure to the left and in through the spring controlled swinging doors Z, which close behind the iigure. T he same movement of the chain will cause dell B to be moved from the position shown in Fig. 1 to take the place vacated by doll A and will at the same time substitute for the dell B, doll O. As doll B leaves its position, the governing arm will be disengaged from the abutment a; and permit doll B to face in the line of movement of the chain until doll B arrives at the place previously occupied by doll A when the arm 9 will engage the abutment 5c and turn the doll B to face in towards the window Y and the same will be true ot' doll C in coming inte the position at the side window previously occupied by doll B. The dog` 5 will drop the abutment 8 when the parts have reached this new position (see Fig. 4) and dog fl will almost immediately engage abutment 8 and move chain 6 in precisely the same manner that chain 6 was moved and with the same ei'iect, save that the arms 9 are in an opposed position to the arms 9 and engage an abutment Qc Which is also diiierently positioned from the abutment 9c so that the doll A which will issue from the swinging doors Z shortly after the disappearance of doll A, will, as soon as it reaches the position vacated by doll D, be turned aWay from the Window Y and faced to the front, showing the purchase or package carried in the arms of the doll; and similarly, When doll A upon a further movement, is carried to the side WindoWY at the left of Fig. 1 dollAvvilLby contact With the abutment at this point, be again turned facing out. The dog 5 Will, When passing aWay from the chain 6 in its onward movement, drop the abutment 8 and Will then pass on to engage an abutment 8 upon chain 6 and the cycle will be thus repeated, chain o With its attached dolls being moved a quarter of its length by each engagement of a dog el or 5 and the tvvo chains being alternately actuated, the result of Which is that at each actuation, a 'ligure standing in front of the mimic shop Window of the device is moving along and into the store and the neXt movement of the other secondary chain Will cause a corresponding doll loaded With a purchase or package to issue from the store.

It Will be obvious that the number of actuating dogs upon the primary chain may be varied and also the number of abutments upon the secondary chain, the only thing essential being that When the dog has passed out of engagement with an abutment on the secondary chain, another abutment shall have been drawn into the path of the dog, to be engaged in due course.

I claim:

l. In an advertising device, the combination of a continuously moving Hexible band, carrying an actuating dog 3 a secondary flexible band carrying cooperating abutments, the abutments upon the second ary band being so spaced upon the secondary band, substantially as described, that When one abutment is dropped by the actuating dogI another abutment, by the movement oi the secondary band, is in position to be engaged by the do upon the primary band as it moves in its pat With the primary band, to cause the continuously moving band to give discontinuous movement to the secondary band.

2. In an advertising device, the combination of a continuously moving llexible band carrying actuating dogs 5 a secondary flexible band carrying cooperating abutments, the abutments upon the secondary band being so spaced upon the secondary band, substantially as described, that When one abutment is dropped by the actuating dog another abutment by the movement of the secondary band, is in position to be engaged by a dog upon the primary band as it moves in its path With the primary band, the dogs being so spaced upon the primary band, substantially as described, that there Will be an interval of time between the dropping of one abutment by one dog and the engagement of another abutment by another dog, to cause the continuously moving band to give discontinuous movement to the secondary band.

3. In an advertising device, the combination of a continuously moving sprocket chain carrying an actuating dog a secondary sprocket chain carrying cooperating abutments and carrying also dolls, the abutments upon the secondary sprocket chain being so spaced, substantially as described, that When one abutment is dropped by the actuating dog, another abutment, by the movement of the secondary sprocket chain, is in position to be engaged by the dog upon the primary chain as it moves in its path with the primary chain, to cause the secondary chain to be dis continuously, positively actuated by the con tinuously moving chain,

4. In an advertising device, the combina tion of a continuously moving sprocket chain carrying actuating dogs; a secondary sprocket chain carrying cooperating abutments and carrying also dolls, the abutments upon the secondary sprocket chain being so spaced, substantially as described, that When one abutment is dropped by the actuating dog another abutment, by the movement of the secondary chain, is in position to be engaged by a dog upon the primary chain as it moves in its path with the primary chain, the dogs being so spaced, substantially as described, that there Will be an interval of time between the dropping of one abutment by one dog and the engagement of another abutment by another dog, to cause the secondary chain to be discontinuously, positively actuated by the continuously, moving chain.

5. In an advertising device, the combination of a continuously moving leXible band carrying an actuating dog 5 secondary iieXible bands each carrying abutments to cooperate With the dog, the abutments upon the secondary bands being so spaced upon each secondary band, substantially as described, that When one abutment on a secondary band is dropped by the actuating dog, another abutment on that band, by the movement of that band, is in position to be engaged by a dog as it moves in its path With the primary band and the tivo secondary bands being alongside the primary band in series so that a dog passes and engages one secondary band, and after dropping that passes and engages successively another, to cause the secondary bands to be successively, discontinuously actuated.

6. ln an advertising device, the combination of a flexible band, carrying pivoted dolls in a predetermined path and means to cause said dolls at predetermined points in that path to pause and turn.

7. In an advertising device, the combina= tion of a flexible band moving in a predetermined path; a pivoted arm upon said band, carrying a doll; a spring tendingl to hold that arm in one position; a fixed abutment adjacent to the path of said band and adapted to engage the pivoted arm, and move said arm and doll upon its pivot in opposition to the force of the spring as the doll and arm pass the abutment, and to release the arm to the action of the spring as the arm is disengaged 10 from the abutment by the onward movement of the band.

Signed by nie at Boston,' Massachusetts this sixth day of November 1906.

G-EOFFREY B. LEllY. Witnesses E. D. CHADWIOK, RUBY M. BANFIELD. 

